On This Day:
Monday February 2, 2015 This is the 33rd day of the year, with 332 days remaining in 2015. Fact of the Day: Hawaii state fish The state fish of Hawaii is the HUMUHUMUNUKUNUKUAPUA'A, which is a form of trigger fish. It is actually not too hard to pronounce if you notice the repetition. HUMU - HUMU - NUKU - NUKU - APUA'A.
Holidays Candlemas (Wives' Feast Day)/ Presentation of the Lord/ Imbolc / Imbolg / Lupercalia / Feast of Pan / Feast of Torches / Feast of Waxing Light / Oimelc.
Feast day of the Purification, St. Joan de Lestonnac, St. Adalbald of Ostrevant, and the Martyrs of Ebsdorf.
Groundhog Day.
Events 962 - Otto I invaded Italy and is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
1536 - The Argentine city of Buenos Aires was founded by Pedro de Mendoza of Spain.
1653 - New Amsterdam -- now New York City -- was incorporated.
1801 - The first parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland assembled.
1848 - The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo formally ended the Mexican War.
1848 - The United States paid Mexico $15 million for lands that eventually became Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas.
1863 - Samuel Langhorne Clemens decided to use the pseudonym "Mark Twain."
1876 - The National Baseball League was founded with eight teams: Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Louisville, and Hartford.
1878 - Greece declared war on Turkey.
1887 - The first Groundhog Day was celebrated in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.
1892 - William Painter of Baltimore, Maryland, patented the crown-cork bottle cap.
1916 - U.S. Senate voted independence for the Philippines, effective in 1921.
1936 - Babe Ruth was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1943 - The last German troops in Stalingrad surrendered to the Red Army, ending one of the pivotal battles of World War II.
1946 - The game "Twenty Questions" was first aired on radio.
1950 - "What's My Line?" premiered on TV.
1967 - The American Basketball Association was formed.
1971 - Idi Amin assumed power in Uganda, following a coup ousting President Milton Obote.
1980 - Details of ABSCAM, an FBI operation to uncover political corruption in the government, were released to the public. The FBI had conducted a sting operation targeting members of Congress using phony Arab businessmen.
1989 - The last Soviet Union armored column leaves Kabul, ending nine years of military occupation in Afghanistan.
1990 - President F.W. de Klerk lifted a ban on the African National Congress and promised to free Nelson Mandela.
2003 - After 13 years as president of Czechoslovakia and then of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Havel gave his farewell address.
2006 - An aging Egyptian passenger ferry carrying more than 1,400 people sinks in the Red Sea off the Saudi coast.
Births 1882 - James Joyce, Irish poet and novelist.
1895 - George Halas, American, co-founder of National Football League.
1901 - Jascha Heifetz, Russian-born violin virtuoso.
1905 - Ayn Rand (Alissa Rosenbaum), Russian-born American social critic, writer.
1907 - W.H. Auden, British-born Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.
1942 - Graham Nash, English-born singer-songwriter.
1947 - Farrah Fawcett-Majors (born Ferrah Leni Fawcett), American actress.
Deaths 1884 - Wendell Phillips, American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, and orator.
1969 - Boris Karloff (born William Henry Pratt), English-born American actor.
1979 - Sid Vicious (born John Simon Ritchie), English punk rock musician and bass player of the Sex Pistols.
1996 - Gene Kelly (born Eugene Curran Kelly), American dancer, choreographer, movie actor, and director.
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